Our picture shows a previous Mother's Day Classic event, when it was still okay to hug.

When we can no longer embrace each other in the street, we can embrace great ideas for helping each other, while staying safe.

That includes being our best selves at the shelves and thinking way outside the square when it comes to community events.

The best thing for our collective mental health is to come up with fun ideas to help each other get through this.

Laughter is going to be the best medicine for many of us.

This is not meant to poke fun at a potentially deadly situation, but to acknowledge that we have already been through too much this year and whatever happens, we have to do our best.

We can still take part in important charity fundraisers - in fact, we are more in the driver's seat than ever.

It is up to you how you engage in a virtual sense.

It is time to put your solitary thinking cap on and come up with great ways for us to work together - without actually working together.

As the nation faces the prospect of many of us working from home for an extended period, we are also offered the chance to come closer together.

After the bushfires, the South Coast needed coronavirus like a hole in the head, but how we manage this latest challenge will truly show who we are.

When the supermarket shelves are less than well-stocked, that is a great chance to take stock.

Yes, we have had bad and panicked behaviour already, but that's no reason to think we cannot do better.

The more kindness we show each other at the check out, in the street and in our personal lives, the more social currency we build.

Enduring friendships and working relationships were built during the bushfires simply because it brought out the best in so many people.

The looters and sociopaths among us are few.

Let's prove it.